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[21 Nov 2008 | 2 Comments | 20 views]

Brad J. Ward (Squared Peg and on Twitter) asked a question on Twitter about two weeks ago.
“bradjward: HEY!!!! If you had 133 characters to tell a class of PR college students something, what would it be? Tag it #jr342. Thanks!! And retweet.”
The responses started rolling in. Five pages. Over 60 responses.
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The Tweets actually were quite good.
Update: In fact, they were so good – here is the presentation he worked up for the presentation.
JR324 Presentation
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: pr college)

Kevin Dugan, …

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[11 Nov 2008 | 3 Comments | 93 views]

Campaigns students worked very hard this summer.  They created a social network and pitched it to the faculty of the Department of Communication & Journalism, Auburn University.
Alana Wells, Sherry Namburi, Miles Duncan, Brett Pohlman, Lindsay McCormick and Whitney West were all members of the PR Campaigns class, Summer 2008. This site is their creation. Search for their resumes at PRProspects.com and hire them. ;o)
The mission?  Bring together students and alumni in an online community.
It launched last week.  In less than a week, members have looked at 2,673 pages …

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[26 Oct 2008 | 2 Comments | 9 views]

Cross-posted from PROpenMic.
Reformed PR practitioner B. L. Ochman writes a review of the recent Council of PR firms (CPR) critical issues forum in her blog, What’s Next.
Read the Council’s take on the event in Dangers Equal Opportunity for Smart Marketers, PR Firms, Lively Annual Public Relations Council Critical Issues Forum Addresses “Most Dangerous Ideas” for Future of PR.
The conversation has actually already become an old one. The paradigm shift caused by the advent of social media software (both free open source and paid platforms) has given voice to the masses …

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[29 Sep 2008 | Comments Off | 8 views]

Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Clemson University PR professor, offers up an excellent review of the Cone “utter bullocks” claim that “93 percent of Americans believe a company should have a presence in social media” in their survey.
The survey seems to be another example of doing a “survey to market your company’s services” effort. An effort, by the way, that we see all too often.
Frederic Lardinois wrote about the survey in ReadWriteWeb, Study: 93 Percent of Americans Want Companies to Have Presence on Social Media Sites.
Lardinois does a less than deep evaluation …